'How clueless can you get? Letting Mom play matchmaker is as good as announcing you're looking for a live-in son-in-law in Baizigou.' Xu Changqing shook her head with a smile and quietly slipped out of the West Outer Room.
She recalled her second aunt-in-law once having designs on Brother Gangzi. It wasn't for her eldest daughter back then, but for her youngest. She'd even come to Changqing for her opinion on the matter.
The aunt had mused that if it worked out, Brother Gangzi would be both her cousin and her younger sister's husband. The thought had been so absurd that Changqing had nearly told Brother Gangzi to flee town overnight and hide.
It was, in a way, a pitiful display of a mother's love. She meddled all day long, to the point that even her three daughters, who should have been the closest to her, were now scared off and rarely visited home.
